Rambles Round London Town |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abbey ancient Anne Boleyn armour Bank Bank of England beautiful bell Bishop Book brought building busy Chamber Chapel Charles Charles II Cheapside church citizens cloth gilt Coloured coronation cousins creatures cross crowd crown Duke Edward effigy Elizabeth England erected feet fire fish Gallery Gardens Garter gate gilt edges Gog and Magog gold golden grand Guildhall Hall Hampton Court hand head Henry VIII honour House hundred King King's Lady Lady Jane Grey linger London Bridge London town look Lord Mayor loved Majesty marble Mary merchants monument night noble Obaysch once painted Palace Parliament pass Paul's pleasant present Prince prisoners quaint Queen RAMBLE robes Roman round royal sceptre splendid stands statue stone stood Stories strange Street Sunday sword tell Thames things tomb Tower Tower of London visitors walls Westminster Westminster Abbey Westminster Hall Whitehall wonder young
Popular passages
Page 136 - May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see, nor tongue to speak in this place, but as the House is pleased to direct me...
Page 40 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 39 - Unblam'd through life, lamented in thy end. These are thy honours; not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust; But that the Worthy and the Good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms — Here lies GAY.
Page 21 - About four I rose and got to the Abbey, where I followed Sir J. Denham, the Surveyor, with some company that he was leading in. And with much ado, by the favour of Mr. Cooper, his man, did get up into a great scaffold across the North end of the Abbey, where with a great deal of patience I sat from past four till eleven before the King came in.
Page 213 - Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath...
Page 155 - ... street as they go : they mount up to the top of the highest houses ; they descend down to the bottom of the lowest vaults and cellars ; and march along on both sides of the way, with such a roaring noise, as never was heard in the city of London ; no stately building so great as to resist their fury...
Page 9 - And for his price doth with whoever comes Of all our Harrys and our Edwards talk, From king to king, and all their kin can walk. Your ears shall hear nought but kings ; your eyes meet Kings only ; the way to it is King's street.
Page 195 - Permit me, sire, farther to observe, that whoever has already dared, or shall hereafter endeavour, by false insinuations and suggestions, to alienate your Majesty's affections from your loyal subjects in general, and from the city of London in particular, and to withdraw your confidence in, and regard for your people, is an enemy to your Majesty's person and family, a violator of the public peace, and a betrayer of our happy constitution, as it was established at the glorious Revolution.
Page 213 - Thine island loves thee well, thou famous man, The greatest sailor since our world began. Now, to the roll of muffled drums, To thee the greatest soldier comes; For this is he Was great by land as thou by sea...
Page 125 - Companies, in their liveries, chains of gold, and banners; Lords and Nobles, clad in cloth of silver, gold, and velvet ; the windows and balconies all set with ladies; trumpets, music, and myriads of people flocking, even so far as from Rochester, so as they were seven hours in passing the City, even from two in the afternoon till nine at night.